My Little Pony: Ignorance is Bliss

Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony Friendship is Magic

I open the door to the mausoleum. It is bright, warm, and sunny outside. I must have been unconscious longer than I thought. I hear Rarity moan from on top of Thunderwing's shoulder.

" Is she going to be alright?" Honey Flower says nervously.

" I hope this bloodstain gets off my coat soon." Rarity says rubbing her wound with her hoof.

" I'm sure she'll be fine. The stab wound isn't that deep. We should get her to Nurse Redheart as soon as possible just to be sure." Twilight says using her horn to heal some of the cuts.

" Wait a second." Honey Flower says galloping over to a grave with yellow flowers. " Do you know what is good for a cut?"

" Salt?" Derpy Hooves asks.

" What is it, Honey?" Thunderwing asks. She takes the petals off the ground.

" These flowers are called Sunshine Daisies. They are used as painkillers and they can also reduce infection." She says sprinkling the pollen and the petals on Rarity's stomach.

" That's very helpful." Fluttershy says. Twilight grabs a tree branch off the ground and her horn glows. The branch disappears and a white cloth appears in it's place. She wraps it around Rarity's waist to stop the bleeding.

" That should do. I'm feeling much better, now." Rarity says.

" We're taking you home, and then we're going to go find Filthy Rich." I say.

" But I want to help you." Rarity says.

" You should rest." Honey Flower says.

" You will be helping us. We can't get into Filthy Rich's factory without a fancy disguise." I say.

" We'll probably need to borrow a few dresses. We promise to be careful not to get 'em all dirty." Applejack says.

" Won't they be suspicious if they see us snooping around his factory? Or are we going to be invisible again." Rainbow Dash says.

" Not at all. He works at a mints so lots of ponies go there for tours." I say.

" We're going on a tour? That sounds like so much fun. We can watch all the shiny coins go down the conveyer belt." Pinkie Pie says blowing a party horn. My ears go back to the side of my head. She giggles and blows on the horn again. My migraine still faintly lingers from the baseball bat. Pinkie Pie takes a super deep breath.

" Would you cut that out?" I ask. Pinkie Pie blows the horn one last time. The paper propels forward hitting me in the eye. " Do you want me to shove that thing down your throat?"

" No. I'm done now." She says smiling.

" This cemetery is huge. It's like a maze. I wish there was an easier way out of here." Rainbow Dash complains.

" I think I might know a short cut. Follow me. If you mares think you can keep up." Thunderwing says challengingly.

" What's that supposed to mean?" Rainbow Dash retorts. Picking up speed.

" Let's see if yall can fly as fast as you can brag." Applejack says sprinting along side Rainbow Dash.

" There they go…" Fluttershy says unenthusiastically.

" Not this again." Twilight moans. We gallop behind through the cemetery and into the dress shop.

" Aw, ya got me!" Applejack says to Rainbow Dash in a playful tone.

" Better luck next time Applesmack." Rainbow Dash says. They both laugh in unison.

" I went easy on you." Thunderwing says opening Rarity's door for them.

" I should have known you knew your way to the dress shop." I say teasingly. Rarity and her friends use their old galloping gala dresses. Honey Flower finds a sparkly blue gown and tries it on in a changing room. I take a rufflely black and red dress that matches my bow and walk in the nearest changing room. I don't remember the last time I wore a dress. I walk out of the changing room to see how everypony else looks.

Thunderwing is in a dark blue suit and his mane is combed neatly. Honey Flower looks absolutely stunning in her gown.

" Honey Flower… You're beautiful." Thunderwing says.

" I'm not that pretty, but thank you." She says modestly. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Is she just saying that for attention?

" Can't you take a complement? Any mare would kill to look like you." I say reassuringly.

" I'm sorry. I guess I'm not used to getting compliments. All the things the Diamond Dogs said about me were negative." Honey Flower says.

" What kind of things did they say?" Thunderwing asks.

" I'm not special because I can't fly and I don't have any magic. I wish I had powers like Sprinklejinx or wings like yours." She says.

" That's not true." Thunderwing say putting his hoof on her shoulder.

" If it weren't for you, Diamond Tiara's lips would still be swollen and Rarity would have an infection." I say.

" I guess you're right." Honey Flower says.

" I'm always right." I say jokingly.

" Are you ready to go?" Thunder wing asks. Everypony nods and thanks Rarity for the dresses.

I stand outside the gigantic factory. A red earth pony with a blue mane is standing in front of the door with tickets.

" How many do you want?" He asks.

" Nine." I say.

" That's a pretty big group. What are you here for?" He asks.

" We want a healthy environment. So we want to make sure that there isn't too many fumes polluting the air in your factory." I lie as I hand him some of the bits we got after we killed Gilda.

" Go ahead in. Have a great tour." He says.

" Do ya think they're going to find out we ain't environmentalists?" Applejack asks.

" Don't worry about it. It isn't any of his business why we're here." Rainbow Dash says. We wipe our hooves on the welcome mat and trot inside the building. There are only four other ponies in line. They're a family of Pegasuses. They go through the double doors.

" I'm sorry. Only five ponies could go in the tour at a time." A unicorn says.

" Pick for  of your friends and go ahead in." He says.

" I'll bring Honey Flower, Thunderwing, Twilight Sparkle, and Derpy Hooves." I say.

" Have fun!" Pinkie Pie says waving goodbye.

Filthy Rich leads us inside of the mints. I stare at the machine. First the pots of gold are dumped in an oven to melt. Then they are hardened and pushed by a conveyer belt and crushed into a burning cookie cutter looking thing and made into their round coin like shapes. After that they are baked again and they engrave the dollar sign on it.

The unicorn walks inside and locks the door behind us.

" This is a mint? I thought that it was the thing that makes your breath not stink." Derpy Hooves says.

" What would you like to see first?" Filthy Rich asks.

" I want to see Princess Cloudstar." I say.

" We don't have Princess Cloudstar. That was just a scam to get people's money." He says.

" Don't you have enough money?" Thunderwing asks.

" No. Our profits went down almost ten percent this month. Less and less ponies want to go on tours because everypony has already seen the mints. I've been spending way to many bits living the fancy life." Filthy Rich says.

" Why don't you sell some of your junk?" Twilight asks.

" That would be a waste." He says.

" Not as bad as stealing." Honey Flower says.

" I'm glad the griffons warned me that you were coming. Now no pony will find out about my little secret." He says.

" Hey, daddy! I want you to meet my friends!" Diamond Tiara says prancing in with the cutie mark crusaders through the back door.

" Not right now. Daddy's busy." Filthy Rich says.

" Your father is telling every pony he found the lost princess and offering ransom money. He's stealing from everypony in Ponyville and feeding them to the griffons." Twilight Sparkle says.

" Sprinklejinx, is this true?" Diamond Tiara says.

" Yes." I say.

" Why? Why are you doing this." She asks her father.

" Don't you want daddy to buy you nice things?" He asks.

" No. Not like this." She says.

" Do you want daddy to go to jail?" He asks.

" Don't drag her into this." I say through my teeth.

" If you really want money, I'll sell all my toys. Just don't hurt Jinx." She sobs.

" It's too late. I need to finish them all now." He says. A flock of griffons come in through the chimney. A griffon picks up Twilight and throws her across the room. She screams. I hear a loud thump. Applejack kicks down the door.

" What in tarnation is going on in here?" Applejack asks.

" Take care of the griffons. I'm going to try to get Filthy Rich!" I say.

" Tie him up with this." Applejack says handing me a rope. Pinkie Pie fires her party cannon launching several Griffons into the air.

" Hurry up, Sprinkles! He's trying to get out the back door." Rainbow Dash says.

" I won't let him." I say. Fluttershy is chased behind the machine and Rainbow Dash uses an aerial attack on the griffons. Fluttershy gabs the bits from the machine and throws it at the griffons. I grab Filthy Rich by the tail with my teeth and levitate the rope with my horn.

The unicorn guarding the door levitates the rope and ties it around my legs. He picks me up by the neck and drops me onto the conveyer belt. I inch closer and closer to the coin crusher. I watch as the gold slates ahead of me are crushed into coin shaped bits.

" Now you will never find Princess Cloudstar." He says. I try to roll my self off the edge of the machine. He pushes me back towards the middle with his hooves. My horn glows and his tail gets caught in the conveyer belt. I close my eyes tightly waiting to be squished like an ant. Oh Celestia, please help me! Thunderwing and Rainbow Dash carry me off the conveyer belt and onto the ground. I watch Filthy rich struggling to get free and screaming his head off.

" No! No! Nooo!" He howls.

The crusher goes down on top of him and I hear his bones snapping out of the machine's force. Blood comes out in all directions and there are coin shaped bits of blood, flesh and bone. The Filthy Rich bits are then dumped into the oven. I feel my stomach getting queasy. I levitate the ropes off my hooves.

The cutie mark crusaders scream and cry hysterically. Diamond Tiara just stands completely still with her eyes like saucers. She doesn't move or take a breath. She makes a small whimper and falls down to her knees. The crusaders put their hooves on her trembling shoulders. My mind goes to panic, to sadness, to rage within seconds. I stare at the pot trembling with anger and clench my teeth tightly.

I levitate my shovel and swing it at the griffons with blind fury. I didn't know who I was hitting and I don't care. I let out a deafening scream and knock a griffon's head clean off with one powerful swat of my shovel. Their tallons dig into my flesh but I can't feel a thing.

I levitate my shovel and swing it at the griffons. Derpy stands cornered by three of the griffons.

" This one's for Gilda." One of them says slamming her head with a pipe from the machine. Derpy drops to her side and kicks her legs in the air. I levitate my shovel and gallop at them with full speed and hit all three of them with one swing.

Fluttershy soars on top of them. " Derpy wasn't bothering you. She was just playing with the buttons on the machine. How dare you hurt her. You better say you're sorry right now!" Fluttershy scolds. The griffons look at each other and fly through the back door.

" I thought she was afraid of griffons." Pinkie Pie says.

" I did too." Rainbow Dash says.

" Derpy!" Rainbow Dash says lifting her bleeding head up off the ground. Derpy's crossed eyes fill with tears.

" You're going to be okay, Derpy." Twilight says listening to her heavy breathing.

" We'll do anything we can to help you." Applejack says.

" We promise." Honey Flower says.

" Don't leave." Derpy Hooves says.

" We're not leaving. We're right here." Fluttershy says.

" Come on, Tiara. You're coming with me." I say gently.

" What about daddy?" She asks.

" Nurse Red Heart is a few blocks away." Thunderwing says.